Val d'Orcia

Italy’s UNESCO Sites

Italy has 51 UNESCO World Heritage sites. This is more than other country. What is UNESCO? The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization decides what sites are put onto this list. Countries submit. The organization researches. Then a decision is made. These sites can be cultural or natural. Itā€™s a big deal to be…

vineyard

Wines of Italy

Chianti. Barolo. Pinot Grigio. Italian wines that most folks have heard of. Nero dā€™Avola. Pecorino. Falanghina. I know my wine friends know these, but Iā€™m betting many of you havenā€™t heard of these ā€œweird Italian grapesā€ (what I call them). Hell, I thought Pecorino was just a cheese!     Italy is full of grapes…

Manarola, Italy

Cinque Terre Changes

  AĀ couple of weeks ago I wrote a post on some of the national parks in Europe. In this post, one of the parks I featured was the Cinque Terre in Italy. This national park and UNESCO World Heritage site has made the news recently, unfortunately for some not so great news. The big news…